So they got their hands out, they gone get their palms read

Lyric Meaning

There’s a couple play on words here. The first is the idea of having one’s hand out, as if a beggar on the street. Now that Meech has made a bit of a name for himself he’s seeing this more often, but he’s not interested in helping because he came up from the bottom, in the “Why dont you try and do something for yourself” style. The word “read” refers to how the people holding their hands out for free things or money often get their palms smacked hard, leaving them swollen and “red”.

The other play is the the idea of holding their hands out, as if they are expecting to be told the answer to life and their future. And then with the second line, he’s wordplaying “read” with “red” saying that by doing this they are going to get bloody.